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ANTIGONE 8

by Marcus Steinweg

Could Antigone’s evidence lie in this non-idealistic conception of freedom: in a claim of freedom, which runs through all the stages of objective non-freedom? There is the appeal for a certain kind of resistance and freedom connected to Antigone. Antigone barricades herself from the established order, in order to instist on her own head, head- and reckless as this might seem. Antigone’s evidence lies in her acceleration towards non-sense, which constitutes the truth of her situation. „Evidence refers to what is obvious, what makes sense, what is striking and, by the same token, opens and gives a chance and an opportunity to meaning. Its truth is something that grips and does not have to correspond to any given criteria. Nor does evidence work as unconcealment, for it always keeps a secret or an essential reserve: its very light is reserved, and its provenance” (Jean-Luc Nancy). The fascination with Antigone is related to this light, this evidence, which obscures its sense by „casting different lights on the familiar“, as Theodor W. Adorno calls it, or, as Ludwig Wittgenstein says, „throwing new light on the facts.“

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